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| Title | : | Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409438023 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 412 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
Drawing on more than 20 years of his own writing on popular music, but synthesising and developing it in a quite remarkable way, Allan Moore accomplishes what seems almost impossible: a completely engaging, beautifully clear, authoritative, and undogmatic account of musical meaning across a huge range of pop songs. Written in direct, accessible and uncomplicated language, but tackling fundamental questions of musical meaning and the nature of musical materials, the book is rooted in Moore's own encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music set in a sophisticated conceptual framework. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.' Choice 'Song Means is an astonishing achievement, and an exceptionally important book. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 'Moore's methodology is clear and easy to follow His discussion of how listeners react to recordings is just as strong as his discussion of melodic modes. This is a landmark in the musicology of pop, and a book t
It is in that tradition that this book lies, although its focus is slightly different. It is that fundamental gap that this book seeks to fill. Scholars from inside musicology have responded by importing into musicological discussion various aspects of cultural theory. Allan F. Moore presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s through to the present day. Moore continues by developing a range of hermeneutic strategies largely drawn from outside the field (strategies originating, in the most part, within psychology and philosophy) but still deeply r. Analysis and interpretation are treated as separable but interdependent approaches to song. Analytical theory is revisited, covering conventional domains such as harmony, melody and rhythm, but does not privilege these at the expense of domains such as texture, the soundbox, vocal tone, and lyrics. The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. However, this focus on the what of musical detail has left largely untouched the larger question - so what? What are the consequences of such theorization and analysis? Scholars from outside musicology have of
He has published nearly 100 articles and reviews in the field. . Allan F. Moore is Professor of Popular Music at the University of Surrey. Author of seven monographs and edited collections, he is series editor for Ashgate's Library of Essays in Popular Music, has been on the editorial board of Popular Music since 2000, and was founding co-editor of twentieth-century music
Five Stars JOSEPH H. YEH A very important and pioneering book !
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